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Eli Wesoff
Eli Wesoff

New York Times, Thursday, July 14, 1988

18-Across : Type of price

Author:
Eli Wesoff
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { B F Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Eli Wesoff has 93 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,128
Across
1
Complain : CARP
5
Converse : CHAT
9
Topgallants : MASTS
14
Completed : OVER
15
City in W Finland : OULU
16
Skiing heights for René : ALPES
17
Verne's skipper : NEMO
18
Type of price : UNIT
19
Sal Maglie was one : GIANT
20
Wilder's "town" : GROVERSCORNERS
23
Minks' relatives : OTTERS
24
Atlantic bird : ERNE
25
Prefix with center : EPI
27
Marsh plants : SEDGES
29
Expressed : STATED
31
Pindar was one : ODIST
34
"Of ___ I Sing" : THEE
35
Snoozed : SLEPT
39
V.P. under G.R.F. : NAR
40
Yorkshire city : LEEDS
41
Whetstone : HONE
42
Pinza in "South Pacific" : EMILE
44
An insecticide : ENDRIN
47
"Pathétique" or "Moonlight" : SONATA
51
Suffix with peon or break : AGE
52
___ Nellie (prude) : NICE
55
Lead sulfide : GALENA
57
Finn's hideout : JACKSONSISLAND
60
Star of "M" : LORRE
61
Secular : LAIC
62
Secondhand : USED
63
Diaphanous : SHEER
64
"___ long way to Tipperary ... " : ITSA
65
Reno word : DEAL
66
Llama's milieu : ANDES
67
Line a roof : CEIL
68
Word for an école coed : ELLE
Down
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The Ubangi joins it : CONGO
2
Wards off : AVERTS
3
Kind of control : REMOTE
4
Put to the test : PROVED
5
Ran, as a stream : COURSED
6
Attila's men : HUNS
7
Rabbit follower : ALICE
8
Private teacher : TUTOR
9
It always attracts : MAGNET
10
"It's a sin to tell ___" : ALIE
11
" ... woodman, ___ beechen tree!": Campbell : SPARETHE
12
Kind of bike : TENSPEED
13
Heathrow arrival : SST
21
Rye fungus : ERGOT
22
Dispensers of T.L.C. : RNS
26
July 15, e.g. : IDES
28
___ qua non : SINE
30
Gormandized : ATE
32
Penrod's friend : SAM
33
The diamond's Speaker : TRIS
35
Anagram for Ashe : SHEA
36
Fictional Silver : LONGJOHN
37
Made beloved : ENDEARED
38
___ diem : PER
40
Horne and Nyman : LENAS
43
Reasonable : LOGICAL
45
Press adjuncts : INKERS
46
Constantine's birthplace : NIS
48
Refer to : ALLUDE
49
Raise a nap : TEASEL
50
Temper : ANNEAL
53
Mulligrubs : COLIC
54
On Mom's side : ENATE
56
Confuse : ADDLE
58
Hudson Bay Indian : CREE
59
Amigo's agreement : SISI
60
Pharm. degree : LSA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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